Gas2 Week in Review, January 21: Autonomous Driving in the News

New, revised US self-driving car guidelines will be unveiled in summer, 2018 . US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao made the announcement at NAICS, saying that the guidelines would address not only self-driving automobiles but “barriers to the safe integration of autonomous technology for motor carriers, transit, trucks, infrastructure, and other modes.” With industry movers-and-shakers such as GM, Toyota, Alphabet/ Google, and others deeply into lobbying efforts to remove remaining roadblocks to the wide deployment of self-driving vehicles and taxis, the announcement seems to point to a faster rollout of the autonomous driving in the US than the Trump administration first indicated.